Welcome to Guest Researcher Dr. Markus Wagner from the University of Adelaide [2017/10]

: Written by: Thomas Weise; Created: 24 October 2017

Our institute welcomes Dr. Markus Wagner, Senior Lecturer from the Optimisation and Logistics Group of the School of Computer Science of The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia, for a research visit from October 24 to November 2. His stay is supported by the Australia-China Young Scientists Exchange Program 2017 (YSEP) [中澳青年科学家交流计划] organized by the China Science and Technology Exchange Center (CSTEC) [中国科学技术交流中心] and the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE).

The members of the Optimisation and Logistics Group in Adelaide research optimization methods that are frequently used to solve hard and complex optimization problems. These include linear programming, branch and bound, genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, genetic programming, ant colony optimization, local search, and others. The areas of interest of Dr. Wagner are heuristic optimization and applications thereof. His work draws on computational complexity analysis and on performance landscape analysis.

Dr. Wagner and the members of our institute will spend most of his visiting time on joint research and on developing future joint projects and collaborations. Additionally, he will visit our colleagues Bin Li at USTC and Xingyi Zhang at Anhui University and give two presentations open for any interested listeners:

Approximation-Guided Many-Objective Optimisation and the Travelling Thief Problem in Anhui University (AHU) [安徽大学] and co-invited by the IEEE CIS Hefei Chapter [slides]
Two Real-World Optimisation Problems Related to Energy at our group [slides (android energy consumption), slides (wave energy)]

Short Biography

Dr. Markus Wagner is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia. He has done his PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany and at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research topics range from mathematical runtime analysis of heuristic optimization algorithms and theory-guided algorithm design to applications of heuristic methods to renewable energy production, professional team cycling and software engineering. So far, he has been a program committee member 30 times, and he has written over 70 articles with over 70 different co-authors. He has chaired several education-related committees within the IEEE CIS, is Co-Chair of ACALCI 2017 and General Chair of ACALCI 2018. Dr. Wagner is also a co-chair of our International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA) and a co-guest editor of the Special Issue on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms in the Computational Intelligence Journal with Profs. Thomas Weise, Bin Li (USTC), Xingyi Zhang (Anhui University), and Jörg Lässig (University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz).